| Dear Editor,
Safety is one of the most challengeable issues in urban
management. Safety promotion has been defined as a
process for ensuringexistence and maintenance of a condition,
which is required to an acceptable level of safety
(1). Structural and behavioral changes in the community
through inter-sectoral collaboration are necessary for
safety promotion. The processwouldbe used at various levels
of international, national, and local with a top-down or
bottom-up approach (2).
Similarly, safety is one of the most important issues
in health systems, especially in hospitals. Beside various
strategies for safety promotion at hospitals, Patient Safety
Leadership Walk-Rounds (PSLWs) have attracted more attentions.
The PLSW is a process, in which a multidisciplinary
team of hospital managers with frontline staff participation
identify, discuss, and plan the initiatives to eliminate
the safety issues (3, 4). Literature has reported PLSW
as an effective strategy for hospitals safety promotion (5-
7). This strategy could also be used in other settings. With
an extension, PLSW strategy can be used in urban management
as community safety walk-rounds (CSWs).
Furthermore, CSW could be defined as a participatory
process, in which community leaders such as Mayor, Traffic
Police and etc., come to the community and identify,
discuss, and plan the safety promotion initiatives with
the participation of the local people. This process not
only increases the inter-sectoral collaboration and community
organizations responsiveness, yet also brings public
participation in community safety promotion. Moreover,
it changes “safety” as a public demand in communities,
which leads to community safety promotion. Considering
that “safe community” concept has been introduced
as an international community safety promotion
approach (8, 9), CSW could be used as a new strategy to obtain
greater commitment and support of community policymakers.
Because of community leaders’ participation,
CSWs leads to more sustainable community safety promotion |